This Agency Saved Jobs by Bringing Restaurant and Grocery Clients Together

Republica Havas helped hundreds of employees find temporary work

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They say crisis brings people together. For one agency, that meant linking up two clients to save hundreds of jobs.

Seeing the inverse impact the coronavirus pandemic was having on the grocery and restaurant sectors, Republica Havas decided to connect its clients to help save jobs. With Miami’s Versailles and La Carreta restaurants, owned by the Valls family, transitioning to pickup, takeout and delivery only, they needed to reduce staffing. Independent Hispanic grocery chain Sedano’s, meanwhile, was looking to add about 400 full- and part-time employees to its more than 30 locations across South Florida.

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